On Monday after I got back we didn’t have Transition Planning class for the rest of the semester except for a mock interview. The next day, after seeing how I make so many crafts out of recycled trash-wallets out of snack wrappers; bookmarks out of toilet paper rolls; crosses out of lollipop sticks; and so on-I thought maybe I should join a student environmental group like what they had a t JOCO. On Wednesday, Mr. B asked me to come see him at 2:40 about my interview time. I went there and he said he wanted to reschedule it for 3:15 next Thursday because he had a meeting in St. Louis on my original date and I said sure. When I went to my Person Centered Planning I told Teresa I was thinking of joining a student environmental organization and she gave me a list of student organizations and sure enough I found a group called the Environmental Awareness Club. I also talked to her about my other blog The Autist Dharma and how my dad likes how it blends Buddhism with so many pop-culture things. She said it sounded like he’s very proud of me. I’ve wanted to make films that reflect the teachings of the Buddha for so long now and I realized that’s the kind of thing I’m good at.
That night I saw a commercial on the Disney Channel about planting trees and I thought how much easier life for people in Africa would be if there were more trees and how people could work more easily and be saner so warlords would have a harder time inducting people into their armies. The next day I had a bite to eat in the cafeteria with Alex and I realized the Environmental Awareness Club could sell the eco-crafts I make to raise money. On Friday I ran into Cassie at lunch where she was sitting with a group of friends and said hello to her. I asked her how her Thanksgiving went and she said it went pretty good. I told her mine went good to. I got my mom to wire fifty dollars from my account at home to my account at school and I started using some rocks I found and collected to make a paper weight saying my name. I made a paper mache log in which I embedded the rocks and on each of them I wrote a letter of my name. I also made a photo holder for the picture of the Dalai Lama on my altar by wrapping a third of a paper clip around the base of a flat rock and curving the other end to hold the photo, and I watched Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with Tyler.
